“Prosecuting school kids for ‘predelinquent behavior’” and other tweeted links…
Prosecuting school kids for “predelinquent behavior” like putting toddlers on gang lists is part of growing state criminalization of Black children by predicting they will break the law & thereby setting them up for prison. [twitter.com]
According to a study conducted by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), black women owe an average of $30,400 in student loans compared to $22,000 for white women and $19,500 for white men. [aauw.org][twitter.com]
Georgia DOC’s Tier II Program, extreme solitary confinement, is dehumanizing torture [sfbayview.com] via @sfbayview
Glendale narcotics detective pleads guilty to lying about organized crime ties [abc7.com]
Just 3 stocks account for most of the market's gain this year [a.msn.com]
Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy [amazon.com] » @tonetalks, @BreakingBrown[twitter.com]
Dark inventory, what is it and how does it fit into the big picture? @MacroVoices[macrovoices.com]
A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? [nyti.ms]
Meet Sarah Rector, the 12-year-old who became America's youngest black millionaire in 1913 - Face2Face Africa [face2faceafrica.com]
A lot of Black men who say they're admirers of the Black Panther Party, don't understand what their politics were. The Party did not bullshit about political education,study of the Party Line,Platform and Points of Discipline.Just being Pro-Black would have gotten you sent home [twitter.com]
Spot on Brother. They tend to forget the fact that the 13 amendment, which we are told ended slavery, had a loophole that allowed for the forced labour of criminals. A number young black men were wrongfully charged as criminals and then worked to death in prison labour camps [twitter.com]
@Ajairah1 You might dig this: [kintespace.com]
The Tuskegee Airmen | Silent Footage of the Red Tails in Italy [youtube.com]@reelblack => @JuneCarol_E
@SandyDarity @tonetalks @Ajairah1 Black Life in Corporate America is even older ...both of these kinds of works need to be updated at least twice a decade ...great work sir ...and special thanks to @tonetalks to keeping you fresh and respected💪
@KinteSpace @tonetalks @Ajairah1 Thanks, but it is now 20 years old. Unfortunately probably still relevant.
Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945 by William (“Sandy”) A. Darity @SandyDarity and Samuel L. Myers Jr. [amazon.com] <= recommended by @tonetalks => @Ajairah1
“I learned a lot of interesting tidbits about Iran; for example, I had no idea that in the 1970s lots of Iranians provided cheap labour to Japan, doing the ‘3K’ jobs ; kitanai (dirty), Kitsui (difficult), and kurushii (painful).” @RowenaMonde[lesreveriesderowena.wordpress.com]
Peter Jackson’s New Film on World War I Features Incredible Digitally-Restored Footage From the Front Lines: Get a Glimpse [openculture.com] via @openculture
@kelandx @trueblackpower correction: the number i was wanting was 122,032 (over 122,000) [theroot.com][twitter.com]
Watch these brothers make electricity - out of cassavas! [twitter.com]
Q&A: How Timnit Gebru Brought Diversity to Artificial Intelligence (Forbes) [tadias.com][twitter.com]
How to Control Aphids, Whitefly & Spider Mites Organically without Spraying [youtube.com]
Why Most of My Garden is from Starter Plants Not Direct Seed [youtube.com] => @RowenaMonde
California malls have been feeding license plate data back to ICE [theverge.com] via @Verge
@tonetalks @BreakingBrown Dr. Pippa Malmgren: Social Media Data Mining is the new Geopolitical Frontier [youtube.com]@MacroVoices
Saluting fellow tribesmen with films in theaters right about now. Check out “The First Purge” directed by #GerardMcMurray and “Sorry to Bother You” by @BootsRiley this weekend to witness exhilarating new visions from two really wonderful filmmakers. These guys are good! [twitter.com]
"California Tried to Give Artists a Cut. But the Judges Said No." [nyti.ms] Are you familiar with the California Resale Royalty Act?: [cac.ca.gov]
Our collective imagination has been captured by the performance of western science. Sadly we have not dared to dream bigger. [twitter.com]
@digitalafrican Yes, whenever some young New York cats from the 1990s talked about their post apocalyptic film that was a clear sign of being totally captivated by the white imagination because apocalypse now, since 550B.C. apocalypse now.
surprised to see John Cleese still making Britain look silly [youtube.com] => @crimesofbrits@trueblackpower
Peter Watts interview [youtube.com]@davebarrkirtley
@davebarrkirtley The Things by PETER WATTS [clarkesworldmagazine.com] [2011 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE, 2010 BSFA AWARD FINALIST]
“Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France [newyorker.com]
Pepe the Frog creator gets neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer to remove (nearly) all Pepe images [theverge.com] via @Verge
"I get discriminated against all the time. No one thinks I’m a CEO. I sit on a plane and tell somebody, 'Well, I run this company.' They’re like, 'What? You run a company?' " [nyti.ms]
“Radicals - and the left in general - have left behind actual class struggle... in favor of spectacle. We’ve stopped actually getting people involved in struggling at the point of exploitation, in favor of everything surrounding that." - @BootsRiley[soundcloud.com]
@Brothercharcoal much of how the left approaches mvmnt building is based in spectacle, due to focuses of the new left of the 60s on academia
@BootsRiley @Brothercharcoal this is a failure to value both the dramatic and the systematic---there is too much Hollywood-bred emphasis on drama instead of love for the nerdy systems analysis---this Greek drama plays well with fascist values round "passion" bruh
just did a simple search for "spectacle @bootsriley" and found none of usual "black twitter" suspects in digital recognition of this statement => @Ajairah1@trueblackpower@ava@megafunkmega [must be a generational thang]
Wow! Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life #bookquotes[twitter.com]
@RowenaMonde Yes, I first became aware of this through discovering how much some women deeply hate those of us that remind them of their father. They were sincerely surprised at themselves and I respected their sincerity, an innocent inner child in discovery.
for my mother: Marie Callender's closing flagship restaurant in LA [abc7.com] via @ABC7